The issue with a lot of third party support on Wii is a lot of the same as DS, the first couple of years, they didn't know what to make of it, what to do with it, thought PSP was going to destroy it, etc.  During the later part of the first couple of years a few developers started doing things right, not to a whole lot of success sales wise but the way things should be done, and a few are finally doing that with Wii now, but because the public has been burned many times over the initial sales of these good games haven't taken off but I'd say a lot like the DS the Wii will come into its own especially with third party support and third party game sales this year.

Clover was funded by Capcom and Capcom decided to disolve them... they didn't go bankrupt... Hell Clover is roughly still together just now as Platinum games with the old director of the Resident Evil series and under SEGA now... a company that will advertise their games like they should be...

And most of that list... those people made MANY MANY duds... 3DO games... please all they did was take advantage of the sports craze of the PS1 putting out subpar game after subpar game and when people finally decided it wasn't worth it to buy trash they died in the middle of last gen, not due to development costs but because they really were a trashy developer.

And no it's nothing new to go out of business cause you made bad games, it's new that so many are losing so much over one game.  People have too much riding on one game this gen over past gens...

That is true, but if they love making games, are cheaper games really a solution ?

I mean if i wanna make a awesome game i wanna make a awesome game you know :p

oh yeah and i finally read your OP too :p yay !

In either case each developer just gotta figure out what solution is the best for them.

Who says that awsome games have to be expensive?

World of Goo is the best game that's come out in the past 2-3 years. How many games did it take to be made? 2. Portal is the exact same as World of Goo, how many people did that take to get made? About a dozen. Both games are the best I've seen released and they cost so little.

My thoughts exactly!

Castle Crashers is better!

It doesn't worry me at all. Consumers demand more that's just the way it is. We cannot stick with this generation. Also we cannot stick with these graphics forever.

The gaming market is just too small for a game like Okami. It's a good game, but this game hadn't been accepted by enough people. That's the risk of innovation, trying to be different. It does not always work out very well. Today capcom says this game is not profitable enough for us.

Lair is just a mistake, the game is very niche. And they over-used the six-axis controls. The industry learned that this is not the way to implement six-axis controls.

What do we want? Sticking with this generation will lead to a greater variety of games. Or do we want to maintain only the main genres and franchises with high quality?

Developers need to anticipate in the evolving market. We are getting enough games to please us. The industry won't be killed. It's just getting mature. The big boys are getting involved. Sega had to downgrade to software only and many developers have died. Also many developers have risen.

The future is bright with new emerging markets (China, India), new technology (3dTV, voice command, motion). This will advance in higher quality and more variety.

Obviously there are dangers for developers. How can we attract new markets, how do we use new technology?

Sometimes it seems a bit unfair, when big publishers are using their marketing machines to market their games. While little developers are struggling with their games to attract the attention of the masses. That's the system it depends too much on economics. Money is king. Although money doesn't solve everything.

Gamers choose what they play. And that's sometimes annoying because masses don't know what is good or bad. Still they have the right to make their own choices. As a gaming community we need to help these gamers to make the right choices. Those are not always a AAA titles, most of the time it's a casual game.

Pfft, the only game that rivals those is Audiosurf (done by 1 guy).

Exactly, and that's even worse than consoles. That's why you should have already guessed I didn't mean quite that. I meant smaller downloadable games. They just need a decent DRM system and then the games. Besides, most casuals don't know about DRM and most hardcore players I've seen don't care about DRM even if they don't like it. (Yes, that is very unfortunate.) And in case you still disagree, Spore sales say hi to you.